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BAG.

APPLICATION FILED my 2. 1919.

1,324,533. Patented Dec. 9, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 2, 1919. Serial No. 294,146.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN G. ALLIN- GER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Quincy, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bags, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to containers, and more particularly to bags for containing granular or pulverulent material, and an ob- ]ect of my invention is to provide a bag that may be filled and closed more readily than by the usual method of tying and pasting.

Another object is to produce a bag on which the contents may be indicated and advertising matter may be displayed in a more engaging and attractive manner.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in a bag comprising a containing member and a cap or closure member.

My invention consists further in certain novel features of construction of the cap or closure.

My invention consists further in certain novel features of arrangement and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my bag as in use with part shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing details of the closure or cap section.

In bags of the usual type, a single member of the bellows or satchel character is used, and to close them when filled the open ends are usually crimped and tied or folded over and pasted. This takes time, and very often the operation is not neatly done.

I obviate these objections by the means illustrated in the drawings, in which A designates the container proper which may be of the usual type, and this may have on one or both sides geometrical figures or linings A within which or around which the character of the contents may be imprinted, the quantity, the trade marks, the producer, or any advertising matter.

The container A may be filled completely up to its top edge, or the upper end A may be folded over; the closure or cap member B is then slipped over the filled container.

The cap B is of substantially the same interior diameter when expanded as the outside diameter of the container or lower mem her A when filled with the desired material,

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and while of less length may be of substantially the same construction, except as to its two opposite side walls B which are each provided with an extension or tongue B which gives the open ends a somewhat archshaped edge, the crown of the arch B being at the longitudinal center of the completed and filled bag. These extensions or tongues constitute an important feature of my invention, for by grasping them the cap may be quickly and neatly placed over the upper end of the container member, com-' pletely closing the same, and reinforcing the upper part of the filled bag.

The side walls of the cap, which carry the extensions, may have on them matching or complementary geometrical figures B within or around which indicia similar to that of the lower or container member may be imprinted.

Ordinarily the cap or closure member B will fit sufficiently tight by partial vacuum formed and by frictional contact over the container that none of the contents will spill or sift out, but it is obvious that said cap may be held on by tying, etc.

The extensions also provide means by which the bag can be quickly opened so that the contents may be taken out of the container.

I claim:

1. A bag construction consisting of telescopic members of flexible material, the lower .or container memberhaving indicia de-:

lineated on its opposite sides forming an incomplete part of indicating matter, the upper or closure member adapted to fit frictionally over the upper end of said lower member, and having delineated thereon prior to its application to the container member 'idicia constituting the complement of said indicating matter delineated on the opposite sides of the container member, the frictional holding actoin between the cover and container being maintained by the contents of the bag.

2. A bag construction consisting of telescopic members of flexible material, the lower or container member having indicia 

